How to backup wordpress database and files (step by step)

As you all know backup is more necessary in order to have a copy of your hard work so that you can easily restore in case you lose your files or even your site is hacked. There are many free and paid plugins to backup your wordpress database and files, but my question is why to use plugins when it’s easy to backup your wordpress database and files manually.

There are many ways to backup your files and database but this post just illustrates in simple easy steps. Here is the step by step method on how to backup your wordpress database and files manually.

[For WordPress Database]

Backup database from phpMyAdmin

Login to your main control panel of your website and locate phpMyAdmin in database section

Open public_html, locate wordpress directory and select all the wordpress files > right click and then download or just drag and drop.

Note: Before downloading create a folder in local PC and direct your download to that file.

Backup your wordpress files using cPanel

As I already mentioned above this method is only for those who using cPanel web-host

Open file manager to home directory in Files section

Open public_html, locate wordpress directory and select all files, right click and compress to zip archive

Now right click the compressed file and download to your pc

All above mentioned are separate methods to backup your wordpress database and files. If you want to backup your complete website which includes database, wordpress files, logs and e-mail data then here is the method

Open backups in cPanel and select download or generate a full website backup select home directory and specify the email address (If your site is too big it may take some time and when it is finished it sends an e-mail) and you can download the full backup file.

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